Smugglers' Notch Resort - The picture says it all. Classic east coast. No one here after the first few hours. I got here at 9 and it started to downpour. A nice steady freezing rain. After 3 hours I had a nice glaze of ice on my whole body, clothes soaked, ya know....cold. After lunch we headed back out and it was starting to sleet. Only 3 lifts were open due to ice delays. The snow was dumping but also raining depending on the elevation. Simple explanation is 4-6" of snow from yesterday, covered with 0.5-1" of ice covered by a little bit of snow. Their 15-20minute lift rides didn't make any of this any better.
Regardless of the horrendous conditions, we still had fun. Not myself, but a bunch of people were hitting liftline and cutting up the crusty finish. That should be OK tomorrow. When I left at 3, there was about 1-2" of new snow on trails. With grooming and fresh snow tonight, the conditions should be fine tomorrow. Christmas and the day after will be amazing. Picture is from liftline (sorry the app flipped it sideways). Copyright: YoDood

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Bull WheelCopyright: anonymous

Tappin' trees in Vermont.Copyright: Smugglers' Notch

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Smugglers notch resortCopyright: Saulius

Smugglers' Notch Resort - A little icy up on Madonna. Some exposed ice patches, but skiable for the most part. Morse was perfect for relaxing runs.
Copyright: Nate G

Smugglers' Notch Resort - powder for days not a bad run what a great resort one of my favs but they need to upgrade these 2 person lifts to minimize these long linesCopyright: joe patchoski

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Great conditions for ski, beautiful
day to enjoy ski terrain.
This was ski report from Maya.LCopyright: Maya.L

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Got snow the morning of the 18th. Needs to be groomed. 19th should be good if it stays cold. Still ice in some spots though. Copyright: Christofer

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Awesome spring bluebird day. Bit icy at the base but everything open from the summit down was great. Few inches of snow at the top was nice to ride today. They blew snow last night into the morning so had plenty to ride on. Winter isn't dead just yet!Copyright: martyrd0m

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Monday rain and warm temps hurt the mountain but colder temps rest of the week and hope for more snow soon, still a good time as always at smuggsCopyright: [! skireport_default_author ]

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Highland Glades had tons of powder today, while it rained down below. Hardest part is you can't just ski the top half of the mountain. While it was snowing up top it was a slush fest and raining down below. All in all top was amazing today. Copyright: Ryan's iPhone

Smugglers' Notch Resort - great conditions in the glades, love the terrain park in the glades. wind from the past few days blew all the snow off some of the black runs thoughCopyright: mitchhockey1

Smugglers' Notch Resort - most of all the mountain this past weekend was all ice, hard to turn stop or carve. worst conditions I've ever seen in vermont. felt like I was skiing in the poconos. atleast the lifts lines were short or empty when it's normally crowded. probably cause people had more fun at the barCopyright: russdpipes

Smugglers' Notch Resort - Snow was alright, got tracked out by the afternoon. Glades were a little sketchy but all in all a great day of northeast skiing.Copyright: hartrorick

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